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MACHINE FOR SHEARING MARGINS OF CLOTH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 621,304, dated March 14, 1899.

Application filed July 1,1898. Serial No- 684,942. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GUSTAV J OSEPHY, a subject of the Emperor ofAustriaHungary, residing at Bielitz, in the Empire of Austria-Hungary, have invented a new and useful Machine for Shearing or Trimming the Margins of Cloth or Fabric, (for which patents have been granted in Germany, No. 101,659, dated April 27, 1898; in France, No. 278,182, dated May 23, 1898; in Belgium, No. 135,797, dated May 23, 1898; in England, No. 12,063, dated May 27, 1898; and in Austria, dated October 7, 1898, and application for Russian patent filed June 7, 1898, for which no patent has been granted,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to machines for shearing or trimming woven fabrics, such as cloth, in which a spirally-wound cutter (cutterroller) operates in conjunction with an undercutter; and the object of my invention is to provide means especially for shearing the margins of cloth left at either end of the piece previously treated on the longitudinal shearing-machines now in use.

The longitudinal shearing-machines hitherto generally employed in removing uprightstanding hairs and other projecting parts of cloths or fabrics and in smoothing the upper face of textile fabrics are attended with the disadvantage that they leave at either end of the piece of cloth a strip or margin which has to be sheared separately, as the present shearing or cutting mechanism cannot be brought sufficiently close to the seam. In order to shear or trim these ends, Leviss or Daviss transverse shearing-machines are resorted to in practice. These machines, however, involve the necessity of winding the goods first upon one roller, so as to trim one of the ends, and then from that roller onto a second roller, whereon the other end or margin is trimmed, and when the marginal shearing is thus completed the material has to be unwound from the second roller, so that this process involves three successive operations-via, the winding of the cloth on one roller, its transfer to another roller, and its unwinding from the latter. The performance of these operations requires two attendants and entails an eX- penditure of time quite out of proportion to the amount of useful work performed, considering especially that the width of the ends to be sheared or trimmed scarcely ever exceeds two hundred or three hundred millimeters. Besides, the shearingmachines used for the purpose being generally constructed for a cut of at least 1.160 meters Wide take up a large space,the shearing table or bench in the said Leviss or Daviss machines, together with the shearing device or cutter of the cross-shearing machines heretofore known, being supported by a spectacle-shaped frame or structure forming the connection between the two side frames or cheeks of the machine, while the material is made to pass under the cutting or shearing device through the spaces left free between the said cheeks. Now according to my invention the goods as they come from the longitudinal shearing-machine in uncovered, or open layers are conducted into a machine so constructed as to directly shear or trim the end of the cloth. as it is supplied from the longitudinal or main shearingmachine. In the improved machine the cutting or shearing device and the bench or table,which is left free on one side, are arranged in such a manner that the material to be trimmed enters the mechanism laterally and is thereby protected from damage. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a cross-section, Fig. 2 a plan, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of an eX- ample of a marginal shearing-machine constructed in accordance with this invention.

The shearing device proper--namely, the cutter-roller m and its undercutter ware supported in a sliding yoke or stirrup-shaped frame 19. The shearing table or bencht is also supported by the said frame 19, but is connected thereto at one end only, having an open space f at its opposite end.

The sliding frame supporting the shearinggear is adapted to travel on the suitablyshaped upper edges of the sides or cheeks s s of the machine-frame, which frame is fitted at one end with a series of stationary nippers, hooks h, or equivalent means for firmly holding the cloth w, while at its other end similar devices h are arranged upon a carriage d. This carriage may be connected to a stretching-roller g by means of bands or ICO chains 6 or be made controllable from some other equivalent device, so as to enable it to be adjusted at any required distance from the other end of the machine, in accordance with the width of the cloth to be operated on, and thus to insure the proper stretching of the said cloth. The cloth folded or piled up next to the machine from the rest is drawn upon the table over the beam i and under the cheek of the side frame 5, whereupon it is fixed in position by the devices h h, and the shearinggear then comes into operation.

Inasmuch as the machine itself is unencumbered by any appliances requiring much room, it in ay be built as narrow as may be desirablesay from two hundred to three hundred millimeters downward.

The practical advantages afforded by this new machine by simplifying the work and thereby reducing its cost are obvious,since the tediou operations of winding and unwinding the cloth backward and forward, which have been unavoidable hitherto, are by the present contrivance rendered unnecessary, so that an equal or greater output can with the new machine be secured at the cost of less labor, both the numberof hands employed and the space occupied by the apparatus being greatly re d uced.

substantially as and for the purposes herein before set forth.

3. The combination of a revolving cutter, a table or bench, means for carrying said revolving cutter and table or bench, said table or bench being connected at one end only to such carrying means, and means for holding the cloth, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GUSTAV JOSEPIIY.

\Vitnesses:

HENRY C. CARPENTER, CHAS. E. CARPENTER. 

